http://seasr.org Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research Fri, 02 May 2008 19:06:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Loretta Auvil was invited to present the keynote address at the Text Mining Workshop 2008, which was held in conjunction with the Eighth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008) in Atlanta, GA on April 26, 2008.  Her presentation title echoes SEASR's identifying phrase, "Engineering Knowledge for the Humanities." Presentation [slideshare 379754 textminingwkspauvil-1209494803448650-9] Abstract Over ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/04/26/text-mining-workshop-2008-presentation/ The SEASR and NEMA (Networked Environment for Music Analysis) teams have transformed a dynamic music classification explorer developed by IMIRSEL (The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory) into a SEASR application that can be reused in whole or part by music researchers everywhere. Ira Fuchs--Vice President of Research ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/04/21/seasrs-newest-application-a-dynamic-music-classification-explorer-thanks-to-imirsel/ Throughout March, SEASR and I-CHASS hosted humanities and social sciences research teams selected for their diversity of approach and interest: Global Middle Ages: “Global middle ages” is a term in Medieval Studies that designates an interest in the middle ages across the world, i.e., non-Western societies.  The research group (Susan Noakes, ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/04/16/formering-new-research-partnerships/ Last week, members of the SEASR team attended the Hadoop Summit & Big Data Computing Study Group. Bernie Acs and Xavier Llorà share the following report of the meeting: The two events hosted by Yahoo! and sponsored by the Community Computer Consortium shared the common theme of data intensive computing. The ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/04/01/exploring-high-performance-computing-infrastructure-at-the-hadoop-summit-big-data-computing-study-group/ SEASR cyberinfrastructure technology will be leveraged by the Cultural Informatics project of UIUC’s Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT), which combines a faculty-initiated research in its academic units with the advanced technology capabilities at NCSA. Cultural Informatics, led by Michael Ross (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts), will "apply ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/03/03/supporting-new-capabilities-a-new-parternship-for-seasr/ SEASR recently attended The Andrew W. Mellon Research in Information Technology retreat, held on the Princeton University campus (February 28-29, 2008). The retreat gave us the opportunity to strategize our approach to sustainability and outreach with other project leaders, as well as to share our progress. Given here from the ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/02/28/making-progress-seasr-at-the-andrew-w-mellon-research-in-information-technology-retreat/ Follow the link provided for a quick look at SEASR, Present and Future. http://seasr.org/blog/2008/02/28/mellon-rit-retreat-presentation-seasr-present-and-future/ Loretta Auvil and Amit Kumar participated in MONK's latest Hackfest (February 7-10, 2008, Chicago). In preparation for the meeting, Peter Groves produced an icon to suggest how well a particular file or feature contributes to supervised classification, a feature MONK anticipates adding to the feature display in the Search by Example ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/02/07/monk-calling-all-hands/ Stuart Dunn and Tobias Blanke discuss SEASR in their report of the UK e-Science All Hands 2007 meeting published in D-Lib Magazine (January/February 2008, Vol. 14 No. 1/2), "Next Steps for E-Science, the Textual Humanities and VREs: A Report on Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and ... http://seasr.org/blog/2008/01/01/placing-seasr-within-the-digital-library-movement/ On December 14th and 15th, SEASR team member Loretta Auvil (project co-PI) attended the MONK (Metadata Offers New Knowledge) All-Hands Meeting on the University of Maryland-College Park campus. Project cells presented reports of the past year's accomplishments and challenges, and we shared our progress in building SEASR technologies and ... http://seasr.org/blog/2007/12/20/facilitating-monk/